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REQUIEM FOR FREEDOM
by Masud Alam LitonFor a human being, freedom is always a relative term. We all have the freedom to think as we please, but can we always express what we think? We are free to fly through air using planes and dive in the oceans using underwater equipment but we can never take off on our wings like birds or breath underwater like the fish.
For the sex workers of Dauladia Ghat, Bangladesh, freedom is a dichotomy. Their profession has freed the sex workers from the ordeals of poverty by demanding they give up freedom over their bodies. They are condemned to be free from average norms and restrictions because sex workers are not free to live in conventional society.
This dichotomy pervades every corner of the lives of the sex workers: They feel independent because they are earning money. But they have to turn the money over to the madam or the ‘husband’, sometimes betrayed by the husbands who marry them for their earnings.
Yet they have one freedom remaining to them that asks no price: they are free to dream. They dream they are birds that go wherever their imagination takes them. Dreams they are living the lives of their fantasies. Their dreams are requiems for true freedom.
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Good job man!
Really awesome work…….
he should get chance with Magnum,
story is really in depth.
This work deserves a publication. All the Best
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Lovely!
Excellent one….
Another master piece……
the best…
Insightful…..amazing piece of work Liton….BRAVO!!
Insightful…..amazing piece of work Liton. BRAVO!
i really seprss the way the husband or other person use the woman or the guy for sex if the eran money by salening their body this money for them not of other i bilieve married woman should not sale here body for other man even here husband want her to do that
Nice piece of work Liton. I love the photography, the images are so strong they speak for themselves.
I really like this series, great story on a tough subject. Good luck!
i like it allott!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its realy good work
(thumbs up!)
You are amazing!
amazing photos on such an important issue in bangladesh!
As I’ve told you last year before we met at APF…. these moved me, and they still do. And always will. Gd luck!
keep it up. good job…..bro
fantastic.
A really cool article
you deserve a medal
I Would say perfect photo-story…
Because after going through the images and your decriptions … words like ‘beautiful’ and ‘nice’ doesn’t fit…
This deserve an award…
Great work..well done Masud…you have my vote